358 Quotes by Zhuangzi

He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

Silence, and non action are the root of all things.

Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Running around accusing others is not as good as laughing. And enjoying a good laugh is not as good as going along with things.

I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?